Box or receptacle.



PATENTED JAN. 10, 1905 W R GOMINGS BOX 0R RECEPTAGLE. APPLICATION FILEDMAR. 28, 1904.

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PATE T OFFICE.

'BOX OR RECEPTACLE.

i SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 779,466, datedJanuary 10, 1905.

- Application filed March 28,1904. Serial No. 200,343.

To all whom/it may concern: I

Be it known that I, WILLIAM RIeH'rER CoM- INes,a citizen of the UnitedStates of America,

residing at Wimbledon, England, have invented a certain new and usefulImproved Box 7 or R'eceptacle,of which the followingis a specification.

, sold cannot be recollected after use, filled with inferior orinfringingmaterials, and then sold, as original packages.

The invention will be described in its application to a cardboard boxsuch as would be used for packing incandescent gas-mantles, as from suchconstruction the application of the invention to other boxes will beobvious.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1- is a view of such a box having aremovable lid or end piece and showing the'means employed in sealing,Fig. 2 being a view of the upper part of a similar box, but with the lidremoved and showing the partial destruction of the body caused by suchremoval.

The tubular body of the box has one end permanently closed, the otherend being provided with a removable cap or lid 1, and at this end thebody has a number of perforations or scorings 2 extending for a shortdis tance. The removable lid'l is secured n the tube by gluing,riveting, or other suitable fastening means, particularly between thelines of perforations, or if preferred a sealing-paper 4 3 may beadhesively attached to the box-body within the line of said perforationsand carried onto or over the lid and similarly secured thereto,and,further, a descriptive label or the like may surround the whole.

The lid is preferably formed, as shown, with a turned-over or flangededge 4, whereby it will abut against the end of the box-body to limitits insertion therein when forced home.

The removal of the lid 1 to extract the contents will, by reason of itsattachment byrivets or adhesive means to the box-body or by the adhesionof the sealing-paper 3 thereto and to the body of the box at the partinclosed by the line of perforations 2, cause that part of the body tobe torn away, destroying also the surrounding label.

What I claim is v In receptacles, and in combination, a boxbody having aline of perforations near one end, a removable end piece adapted to fitwithin the box-body, a flange on the outer edge of said end piece toprevent its entering the box-body beyond a predetermined depth, andmeans for securing the end piece to the box-body between the line ofperforations.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM RIGHTER COMINGS.

Witnessesz PHILIP M. Jus'rron, AM J ENIUS.

